CVE-2024-50231

iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()

Medium · published November 9, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()

modprobe iio-test-gts and rmmod it, then the following memory leak

occurs:

unreferenced object 0xffffff80c810be00 (size 64):

comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1654, jiffies 4294913981

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

02 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 ........ ...@...

80 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 08 00 00 ................

backtrace (crc a63d875e):

[<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40

[<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0

[<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4

[<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0

[<000000000315bc18>] 0xffffffdf052a6488

[<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac

[<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec

[<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374

[<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

unreferenced object 0xffffff80cbfe9e70 (size 16):

comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 1658, jiffies 4294914015

hex dump (first 16 bytes):

10 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....@...........

backtrace (crc 857f0cb4):

[<0000000028c1b3c2>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40

[<000000001d6ecc87>] __kmalloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x3c0

[<00000000393795c1>] devm_iio_init_iio_gts+0x4b4/0x16f4

[<0000000071bb4b09>] 0xffffffdf052a62e0

[<000000007d089d45>] 0xffffffdf052a6864

[<00000000f9dc55b5>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac

[<00000000175a3fd4>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec

[<00000000f505065d>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374

[<00000000bbfb0e5d>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

......

It includes 5*5 times "size 64" memory leaks, which correspond to 5 times

test_init_iio_gain_scale() calls with gts_test_gains size 10 (10*size(int))

and gts_test_itimes size 5. It also includes 5*1 times "size 16"

memory leak, which correspond to one time __test_init_iio_gain_scale()

call with gts_test_gains_gain_low size 3 (3*size(int)) and gts_test_itimes

size 5.

The reason is that the per_time_gains[i] is not freed which is allocated in

the "gts->num_itime" for loop in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00221 · 12.0th percentile
Published
2024-11-09T10:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 NOV 10:14Z
    iio: gts-helper: Fix memory leaks in iio_gts_build_avail_scale_table()
    cvelistv5